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Jan. 1st, 2023 10:14 pmLove the linguistic niche that “egg” as a piece of slang fills as a differentiation from “closeted”. It’s a shame that the word basically only applies to transness, seeing as how other kinds of queerness also benefit from a semantic distinction between hiding that you are X and not knowing that you are X.
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Dec. 4th, 2022 03:25 pmnew vogue children is good because it threads that line of at once being very edgy and melodramatic in the style typical of vkei stuff but on the other hand it is also very compassionate and loving, i feel, and that contrast is good and it blends together so well to create a very wonderfully queer song. also it has a line about cannibalizing all the straight people.
Trying to explain why I don't like certain kinds of Supernaturally Validated Trans Person stories. Stick with me here.
Okay, so the ones that I do like, or at least I'm okay with, are the ones that star trans people who already know they're trans, like, I think the SVTP moments in School Mermaid/Magical Girl Site were fine (and the one in magical girl site was pretty subtle) and there was one Furuba fic that I really liked with trans girl Ritsu that basically centered around a SVTP moment, but anyway, I'm getting off track.
The ones that I don't like are ones where the Supernaturally Validated Trans Person doesn't know that they're trans and it's the Supernatural Validator, like, reading their soul and telling them "you are A Girl". That just freaks me out.
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Okay, so the ones that I do like, or at least I'm okay with, are the ones that star trans people who already know they're trans, like, I think the SVTP moments in School Mermaid/Magical Girl Site were fine (and the one in magical girl site was pretty subtle) and there was one Furuba fic that I really liked with trans girl Ritsu that basically centered around a SVTP moment, but anyway, I'm getting off track.
The ones that I don't like are ones where the Supernaturally Validated Trans Person doesn't know that they're trans and it's the Supernatural Validator, like, reading their soul and telling them "you are A Girl". That just freaks me out.
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Feb. 11th, 2022 04:12 pmopinion of uncertain temperature, but:
"OF COURSE trans women are women, but we really should be worried about all of these gender-non-conforming men wearing skirts to trick women into thinking they're safe to be around" and "OF COURSE gay trans men are valid, but aren't those creepy fujoshi obsessed with gay porn and M/M relationships who say shit like 'i wish i was a gay man' gross?"
are fundamentally the same take.
"OF COURSE trans women are women, but we really should be worried about all of these gender-non-conforming men wearing skirts to trick women into thinking they're safe to be around" and "OF COURSE gay trans men are valid, but aren't those creepy fujoshi obsessed with gay porn and M/M relationships who say shit like 'i wish i was a gay man' gross?"
are fundamentally the same take.
i hate it when people are like "we allow all fic in our community, just not transphobic fic" or "oh, it's not okay to harass/censor people, except when their art is transphobic" like
below the cut is a list of everything that i have heard Some Fucko On Teh Interwebs say is transphobic to write, most of these being "backed up" by bans/harassment campaigns:
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so when I hear "we're banning transphobic submissions or "fandom has a transphobia problem" i have to do this fucking *insert gif of equations flying around* to figure out WHAT THE FUCK YOU MEAN and if this place is a safe space for me because no one is willing to just WRITE OUT WHAT THEY'RE BANNING from their event/discord server/kink meme
below the cut is a list of everything that i have heard Some Fucko On Teh Interwebs say is transphobic to write, most of these being "backed up" by bans/harassment campaigns:
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so when I hear "we're banning transphobic submissions or "fandom has a transphobia problem" i have to do this fucking *insert gif of equations flying around* to figure out WHAT THE FUCK YOU MEAN and if this place is a safe space for me because no one is willing to just WRITE OUT WHAT THEY'RE BANNING from their event/discord server/kink meme
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Dec. 4th, 2021 10:32 amhow utterly pompous do you have to be to look at someone's art or memes and go "yes, i am going to decide, from this small example that i, the alpha and the omega of all things transgender, know your exact Gender Situation, and therefore, i will treat you accordingly"
like i'm not in the practice of saying out loud or commenting "ooh a cis/trans/XYZ person wrote this" but i do THINK it and i'm wrong! a lot of the time! whether it be assuming people's AGAB or assuming they're cis when they're actually trans or that they're trans when they're actually cis and i just. can not. imagine doing this FREQUENTLY and getting it wrong ALL THE FUCKING TIME (because these people are running off of "if it makes me feel uncomfy than whoever made it must be cis") and STILL thinking they're right and correct and SHOULD be doing this it's so confusing to me
like i'm not in the practice of saying out loud or commenting "ooh a cis/trans/XYZ person wrote this" but i do THINK it and i'm wrong! a lot of the time! whether it be assuming people's AGAB or assuming they're cis when they're actually trans or that they're trans when they're actually cis and i just. can not. imagine doing this FREQUENTLY and getting it wrong ALL THE FUCKING TIME (because these people are running off of "if it makes me feel uncomfy than whoever made it must be cis") and STILL thinking they're right and correct and SHOULD be doing this it's so confusing to me
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Nov. 6th, 2021 06:15 pmsomething i learned from taking a wrong turn on twitter and spending the past week and a half engrossed in Exclus Disc Horse 2: Electric Boogaloo is that a lot of this boils down to just one thing.
Nonbinary people existing makes sexuality REALLY FUCKING COMPLICATED (well, more complicated then it was before lol) and a lot of people just kind of want us to go away or stop talking about the complexity so that they can bash us into the mold they're used to
Nonbinary people existing makes sexuality REALLY FUCKING COMPLICATED (well, more complicated then it was before lol) and a lot of people just kind of want us to go away or stop talking about the complexity so that they can bash us into the mold they're used to
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Jun. 29th, 2021 04:52 pmmy sort-of-omegaverse-headcanon is that in omegaverse land, queerness sort of exists on three separate axes. there's the "what gender(s) are you attracted to" and "what gender(s) are you" axes that exist in our world, but there's also the third axis of "what's your sexual orientation (in terms of dom/sub/switch)"
this means that i can not only write characters who are queer, i can write characters who are queer in ways that literally don't exist in this world, which is Very Inch Resting.
this means that i can not only write characters who are queer, i can write characters who are queer in ways that literally don't exist in this world, which is Very Inch Resting.
please validate my shitty edit
Jun. 3rd, 2021 04:20 pm
(credit goes to tumblr user prokopetz for the gender overlay, overlay can be found here if you want to make your own)
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Jun. 3rd, 2021 01:28 pmme: "hm, i've been thinking about kaneki's relationship to gender because it's very interesting both in the 'this is super fun to analyze and pick apart from a queer theory lens' and in the 'this is Super Mega Id Candy for my horny genderqueer ass' way, and i just sort of realized that 'kaneki is intersex' is like. Barely a headcanon. i wonder if anyone's talking about this!"
people on the internet: *discuss this whole barely-a-headcanon in perhaps the most binarist way i've ever seen anyone discuss a headcanon*
me: *recoils in OHGODWHATTHEFUCK*
people on the internet: *discuss this whole barely-a-headcanon in perhaps the most binarist way i've ever seen anyone discuss a headcanon*
me: *recoils in OHGODWHATTHEFUCK*
